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God's Message for Each Day: Wisdom from the Word of God QUOTES

God's Message for Each Day: Wisdom from the Word of God QUOTES

1 " The basic conviction of a Christian is that God intends good for us and that he will get his way in us. He does not treat us according to our deserts, but according to his plan. He is not a police officer on patrol, watching over the universe, ready to club us if we get out of hand or put us in jail if we get obstreperous. He is a potter working with the clay of our lives, forming and reforming until, finally, he has shaped a redeemed life, a vessel fit for a kingdom. A LONG OBEDIENCE "

― Eugene H. Peterson , God's Message for Each Day: Wisdom from the Word of God

2 " There is an enormous gap between what we think we can do and what God calls us to do. "

― Eugene H. Peterson , God's Message for Each Day: Wisdom from the Word of God

3 " I don’t know one thing about the future. I don’t know what the next hour will hold. There may be sickness, accident, personal or world catastrophe. Before this day is over I may have to deal with death, pain, loss, rejection. I don’t know what the future holds for me, for those I love, for my nation, for this world. Still, despite my ignorance and surrounded by tinny optimists and cowardly pessimists, I say that God will accomplish his will, and I cheerfully persist in living in the hope that nothing will separate me from Christ’s love. "

― Eugene H. Peterson , God's Message for Each Day: Wisdom from the Word of God

4 " PAYING ATTENTION TO GOD We bless GOD, oh yes—we bless him now, we bless him always! PSALM 115:18, THE MESSAGE Prayer is the most thoroughly present act we have as humans, and the most energetic: it sockets the immediate past into the immediate future and makes a flexible, living joint of them. The Amen gathers what has just happened into the Maranatha of the about to happen and produces a Benediction. We pay attention to God and lead others to pay attention to God. It hardly matters that so many people would rather pay attention to their standards of living, or their self-image, or their zeal to make a mark in the world. The reality is God: worship or flee. THE CONTEMPLATIVE PASTOR "

― Eugene H. Peterson , God's Message for Each Day: Wisdom from the Word of God

5 " The function of religion is not to make people feel good but to make them good. Love? Yes, God loves us. But his love is passionate and seeks faithful, committed love in return. God does not want tame pets to fondle and feed; he wants mature, free people who will respond to him in authentic individuality. "

― Eugene H. Peterson , God's Message for Each Day: Wisdom from the Word of God

6 " We believe that this human life is a great gift, that every part of it is designed by God and therefore means something, that every part of it is blessed by God and therefore to be enjoyed, that every part is accompanied by God and therefore workable. "

― Eugene H. Peterson , God's Message for Each Day: Wisdom from the Word of God